She's an award-winning documentary filmmaker & investigative journalist. Sidney Judge for @SidneyHillman. (inglés y español)
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My latest for @MSNOWNews: Why the Epstein Suicide Note is Probably Legit: ms.now/opinion/epstein-suici…
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The president of the United States is endorsing domestic terrorism. This isn't hyperbole. It's a simple fact. These Trump supporters tried to run a bus off the road that was carrying top Texas Democratic officials en route to a campaign event. People could have died.
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If you're not a birder, you don't understand how vicious the "Does the Ivory Billed Woodpecker Exist" discourse is. Some forums have a rule against bringing it up. Because it's birdie Bigfoot.
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It should be illegal to make customers cancel their subscriptions by phone if you let them manage other aspects of their account online.
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Universities should not have to be "in sync" with the Trump administration. That's totalitarian bullshit.
Linda McMahon: "Universities should continue to be able to do research as long as they're abiding by the laws and in sync, I think, with the administration and what the administration is trying to accomplish."
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"The left" predicted that hospital lawyers would tell doctors not to treat ectopic pregnancies because they could be prosecuted under the law. "The left" was right.
Rep. Kat Cammack on her ectopic pregnancy that she says doctors wouldn't initially treat because of Florida's Republican abortion ban: "The left absolutely played a role in making sure that doctors and women were scared to seek out the help that they needed."
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A parole board sent a convicted wife-murderer to a sex worker *because* they knew he was a danger to women but wanted to make sure he got his "sexual needs" met. The guy murdered the 22-year-old sex worker. bit.ly/2ROj4DD
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The Alec Baldwin debacle confirms my belief that most prosecutors are so used to railroading poor people that their chops atrophy and they can't convict a rich person with decent lawyers.
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A correspondent for The Federalist forgets that Hamilton, Madison, and Jay wrote the Federalist Papers under the pseudonym Publius.
Let me put this as bluntly as possible. People who express anonymous political opinions on Twitter are cowards. The founding fathers risked their lives for their beliefs. These people, for all their bluster, won’t risk their jobs.
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Holy shit. This story is so much worse than the headline suggests. The judge seems to have targeted the protesters in a premeditated way, falsified a report to 911 to justify the hit claiming they were surging at his car when the video shows no such thing.
Black Lives Matter activists said a man tried to hit them with his car. The suspect turned out to be a judge. wapo.st/3opVyLF
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You know why they're carrying JD Jizz Cups? To make fun of the Walz's for conceiving via IVF. The more you know, the grosser it gets.
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This is a red headed woodpecker and Dan is clowning on that annoying birder who always wants to share some dumb YouTube video about how the Ivory Billed Woodpecker Didn't Really Go Extinct and Secretly Lives in Some Swamp in Alabama.
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Autism rates have risen because we loosened the diagnostic criteria for autism, dedicated resources help autistic people, and empowered families and doctors to seek diagnoses.
Jeez -- Sen. Markwayne Mullin defends RFK Jr's nomination by going full anti-vaxxer and questioning whether vaccines cause autism (they don't)
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Chris Hayes talking about a huge, under-covered aspect of Trump's immigration policy: Refusing to process asylum seekers who show up at official points of entry. That's illegal.
"The prosecutions for illegal entry while preventing people from coming legally appear to be part of a pincer movement intentionally designed to choke off asylees attempting to come into the country" - @chrislhayes
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Imagine if John McCain had demanded legislation to protect the Special Counsel. Imagine if John McCain had called on GOP senators not to let Trump pick the next Supreme Court nominee. I know that sounds far-fetched, because he didn't really oppose Trump.
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The vaccine mandate might be the single most effective tool for rooting out extremists in our military.
All of the U.S. military services have now begun disciplinary actions and discharges for troops who have refused to get the mandated coronavirus vaccine, officials say, with as many as 20,000 unvaccinated forces at risk of being removed from service. nbcnews.to/3yEjPmC
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Rewatching "I, Claudius." The most painful moment is when Caligula has decided he's a god and Claudius and Herod are delighted because THAT's just too crazy and everyone's going to SEE that, and Rome'll be a Republic again.
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If you saw the wolf and warned people, you weren't "crying wolf."
"I think what the media has done over the past ten years is cry wolf, to the point where they numbed everybody." Jon Stewart explains his POV on whether to call Trump "fascist." #AfterTheCut
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The point of the story is that the anonymous operative behind LibsofTikTok is Chaya Raichik and we should care about that because she's calling named individuals child molesters and her content is being amplified by the biggest names in right wing media.
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How is this "he set expectations so low that he gets to win the debate by not being worse" a trope that professional journalists repeat? This is not how anything else in life works.
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What big words did Harris use? I feel like in our rush to explain the election, we're memory holing the campaign. I feel like situationally appropriate behavior is now being coded as inherently elitist.
“Use words that everyday Americans use,” urged Rep. Grace Meng (D-N.Y.), who significantly outran Harris in her Queens-based district, adding: “If I can’t say it to my grandma, I’m not going to say it to my constituents.” politico.com/news/magazine/2…
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It all comes down to the information environment. Inflation is down, growth is up, border interceptions are down, crime is down, vaccines work great--and none of it matters. Trump created a conspiracist permission structure to ignore or deny all the facts and focus on hate.
The flip side is that Trump ran an awful campaign. He gave a terrible RNC speech, his VP was deeply unpopular, he lost the debate, he had no ground game to speak of, he offended key demographic groups ... and none of it mattered.
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DeSantis is lying. Jones did design the website from scratch, she was profiled in the media for it. Dr. Birx of the CDC said she spent 5 hours on the site and marveled at how good it is. Jones is an expert in geographical information systems (GIS).
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) says Rebekah Jones:
-Was not the chief architect of the Florida coronavirus web portal
-Was inputting data that scientists said was not “valid data”
-Is under criminal investigation in Florida
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Keep in mind that full-service sex work is illegal in Quebec. So, the parole board was authorizing this guy to commit crimes, too. Because men's sexual needs trump everything in a patriarchy.
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It’s not derangement. It’s a strategy to give permission for violence against all the right’s political enemies, not just LGBTQ folks. It’s like calling abortion providers “baby killers.” Do it enough times and someone will act on it.
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The murderer was forbidden to have any relationships--sexual or platonic--with women as a condition of his parole, because he was so dangerous to women! But the parole board decided a sex worker was expendable.
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Being an armed white homeowner buys you a lot of presumption of innocence when you shoot two men, set their bodies on fire, and bury them in your back yard.
Eddie Loftis shot two men dead, set their bodies on fire and buried them in his backyard in 2016. Was he a murderer or a suburban dad trying to protect his home from attack? postandcourier.com/news/i-pa…
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The whole point of being an Ivermectin Guy is so you can spout anti-vaxx propaganda while sounding smarter than the Microchip Guys. That’s why they get so pissed off when you call it horse paste.
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Everyone who knows what's coming with COVID is wandering around in a fog of anticipatory grief.
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Nobody showed up for the Staten Island rally, except the police: bit.ly/3aom6Vc
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Discourse over whether it still exists. Everyone agrees that the ivory-billed woodpecker was a real species. There are stuffed specimens and videos of the birds. The last confirmed sighting in the US was in 1944, so there may still be folks out there who saw them live.
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It's a hell of a news day when the NYT reveals that the Russians paid bounties to the Taliban to kill US troops, and it barely even registers.
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Buried lede: Babbitt once belonged to a National Guard unit whose job was to protect the Capitol from civil disturbances. They put their most qualified people, such as they were, in the vanguard. wapo.st/35slEpb
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It's like if the media went off chasing the DNC after the Watergate burglary. What were they HIDING that Nixon would want to break into their offices?
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It's unserious to squander the value of incumbency for a president who's, objectively, acing the job. In favor of an acrimonious primary fight with no clear heir apparent. Against a criminal opponent who's only 3 years younger and slurring and raving his way across the USA.
You don't demonstrate your seriousness that Trump is an existential threat to democracy by going through the motions to renominate an 81-year-old with a 38% approval rating who 75% of voters think is too old without giving anyone a choice because that's just how things are done.
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The prof did everything right: She announced the painting in the syllabus, she used trigger warnings, she gave students the opportunity to leave. And she got fired based on the complaints of people who weren’t even in the class. nytimes.com/2023/01/08/us/ha…
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Medically, a miscarriage is known as a spontaneous abortion. The treatments for terminating a pregnancy and for cleaning out a miscarriage overlap. The line between the two can be murky even in the same case.
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The NYT shamelessly both sides a story about a brave doctor who saved a 10yo girl from having to bear her rapist’s baby. The facts were not scarce. The doctor went on the record and told us exactly what happened.
The story of a 10-year-old rape victim in Ohio has become the focus of heated political debate in media. nyti.ms/3ANG3FP
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There. Is. No. Plan. Not. Even. Concepts. Of. A. Plan.
ALT Administration officials knew the markets would dive and other nations would retaliate when President Trump announced his long-promised “reciprocal” tariffs. But when pressed, several senior officials conceded that they had spent only a few days considering how the economic earthquake might have second-order effects. And officials have yet to describe the strategy for managing a global system of astounding complexity after the initial shock wears off, other than endless threats and negotiations between the leader of the world’s largest economy and everyone else. Take the seemingly unmanaged escalation with China, the world’s second largest economy, and the only superpower capable of challenging the United States economically, technologically and militarily. By American and Chinese accounts, there was no substantive conversation between Mr. Trump and China’s top leader, Xi Jinping, or engagement among their senior aides, before the countries plunged toward a trade war.
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Parole boards punish people for doing normal legal stuff all the time, like spending time with a family member who has a felony. But in this case, the parole board was like, Go ahead, do crimes!
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People are not paying up to $100 for sheep drench because they are downtrodden, or because self-medicating from the feed store is a noble rural tradition. They’re privileged people who are refusing a free vaccine to fight the culture war.
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Rosa Parks has been rewritten in the popular imagination as a nice lady with tired feet. In fact, she was a skilled and dedicated activist who planned her iconic act of civil disobedience strategically with comrades. Let's remember her in full.
68 years ago today, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, helping launch the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
We honor her legacy and continue her fight for civil rights for all.
#RosaParksDay
ALT An image shows Rosa Parks
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It’s not even a scam by Trump, it’s pure media delusion. Trump is yelling about cannibal migrants quadrupling your taxes while taking 107% of the jobs. And the goldfish brained MSM is like: changed man, very spiritual.
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If you invite the press to watch you practice shooting feds, you can't complain when the feds bring guns to arrest you. bit.ly/2CNC0tt
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9/11 was horrible, but what was worse was the way it overshadowed the next 20 years. I have no interest in reminiscing about it.
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It's terrifying to hear the governor openly say that they're more interested in expanding hospital capacity than they are in containing the outbreak. If you don't contain the outbreak, you're not going to be able to keep up.
Arizona ICU capacity reaches 80 percent as state records single-day high newsweek.com/arizona-icu-cap…
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This is a very smart fight to pick. The bigger the better. Make as many Republicans defend the totalitarian Project 2025 as possible. The more voters know about Project 2025, the less they like it. It contains all the least popular, most deranged GOP agenda items.
“Project 2025 will not be ‘stopped,’” the President of the Heritage Foundation said. "He said the Democrats fighting Project 2025 are 'more than welcome to try. We will not give up and we will win.'” apnews.com/article/project-2…
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Confronted with the evidence that CRT is not being taught in schools, Sullivan pivots to crypto-CRT: That CRT is secretly influencing our educators. Which is totally non-falsifiable and allows him to label anything he doesn't like as CRT.
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The more I read about the 1/6 insurgency, the clearer it is that DC's gun laws worked! The insurgents knew it was illegal to carry, anticipated getting stopped if they brought guns, and warned their supporters to bring less-lethal weapons.
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A former SpaceX intern posted about how managing Elon was ingrained into the culture of the company at every level. You can see the far-right managing Elon on twitter. They’re the only one telling him he’s a genius.
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Genuinely grief-stricken. In life, Flaco was an ambassador for birds and for New York City. He was an avatar of freedom and possibility. In death, I hope he will be an ambassador for better building design to prevent bird collisions.
We are heartbroken to report that Flaco the Eurasian Eagle-Owl has died tonight "after an apparent collision with a building on West 89th Street in Manhattan."
newsroom.wcs.org/News-Releas…
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To understand Jan 6, you have to think in terms of an inside game and an outside game. The inside game was to have Pence steal the election procedurally, the outside game was to terrorize potentially recalcitrant GOP reps into going along with the theft.
John Eastman, who wrote the pseudo-legal memo explaining how Mike Pence could steal the election, also helped write a guide for Donald Trump to use the military, FBI, DHS, police, and criminal gangs to hold onto power during a disputed transition: bit.ly/30lYEZw
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So did motorcyclists who didn’t want to wear helments and motorists who didn’t want to wear seatbelts. And dudes who don’t want to wear condoms are still whining like it’s the greatest human rights disaster of all time.
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Once again, ordinary people can't hire real hitmen. You're either going to get an FBI agent or an amateur, and it's hard to say which will be worse for you: nyti.ms/37iTaPi
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The failure of the Ottawa police to uphold the rule of law should be a hair-on-fire moment. The police force of the nation’s capitol is on the side of the insurgents and that is unacceptable.
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Note how "skin in the game" tacitly refers to property. 16-year-olds have way more skin in the game than adults when it comes to life expectancy on a parched and burning planet.
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Kavanaugh predicted that he will never coach girls' sports again because of the sexual assault allegations against him. The standards for the Supreme Court should be at least as high as those of a prep school basketball program.
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It's easy to feel down, UNLESS YOU MADE $18 MILLION BY INSIDER TRADING ON A PANDEMIC.
It’s easy to feel down right now. But we can’t forget: social distancing will save lives. During these times, it’s the small, positive moments that remind us why we must stay strong.
Whether you’re on the front lines or at home, each of us plays a role in getting through this.
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Such a gratuitous hurdle to cancelling your account is anti-consumer and shouldn't be tolerated.
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Stefanik is stressing that anti-corruption is part of existing US policy. This doesn't help her case. There was a Pentagon review that established that Ukraine had DONE everything it needed to do to get the money before the freeze.
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It's infuriating to log onto the website and navigate to the "cancel my account" tab only to see a message saying you have to call during normal business hours.
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There was a time in your life when you were a virgin. There was never a time when Huckabee Sanders was honest or transparent.
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What a stupid concept. The appeal of cheese sticks is a high ratio of crunch to cheese and easy dipping. A giant stick defeats all the dish’s virtues.
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Elon Musk is raving about USAID being a "criminal organization" that needs to "die." Conspiracism is the real mind virus. This is manic street preacher level drivel.
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Dude, when a 10-year-old comes up pregnant, it was rape. End of story.
The last line of this fact check was: "If a rapist is ever charged, the fact finally would have more solid grounding." Now, a rapist has been charged and the story has been updated. Getting lots of angry emails but journalism is an accumulation of facts. washingtonpost.com/politics/…
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Worth every penny.
REVEALED: Dr. Fauci is the HIGHEST PAID employee in the federal government with a $417,608-a-year salary trib.al/ESpjHrj
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The Oregon GOP is teaming up with local paramilitaries to threaten the police who would come to round them up for the vote. A sitting state senator threatened to murder police officers in cold blood.
The entire nation—and the world—is watching Oregon. A small group of state Senators are choosing not to do their jobs by running away and avoid voting on Oregon's #CleanEnergyJobs bill, betraying Oregon’s workers, families, and children. #ActOnClimate act.ucsusa.org/2WUih35
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At least it’s an acknowledgement from a white guy that he’s lived his whole life at 60% and seems to be getting by just fine. Other people operate a lot closer to 100% all the time.
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Jordan Peterson is not a serious thinker. The Bible is not a “precondition” for truth. People spoke the truth, valued the truth, and inquired into the conditions for truth long before the Bible was written. People who have never read the Bible still do these things every day.
In the west, the Bible is the precondition for truth.
From 'You Probably Should Have Read The Bible'.
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Why is it that you can't say "lie" because you don't know a person's mind, but you can say "believe" under the same circumstances? Why are you prejudging whether they believe their own happy talk?
Confirmed - this is what Kushner has been working on. They believe they can get enough senate votes to push it through and then pressure builds on the House.
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There’s a myth that teachers love remote teaching. The truth is, teaching online is more work for less return. I’ve watched my partner and friends teach online through the pandemic and it’s utterly draining and demoralizing, not some kind of perk.
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Not to be outdone by the WSJ's "I won't take my filthy shoes off in your house," the Atlantic follows up with "I won't even try to respect your time."
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The fact that the Black Israelites instigated the conflict that Nathan Phillips was trying to defuse has no bearing on whether the Catholic dudes were being racist.
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Blatantly playing to readers' fear of being old and out-of-touch. ZOMG, THE ZOOMERS ARE JUDGING ME AND I CAN'T EVEN TELL!!!
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So, let me get this straight, this guy has a Top Secret clearance and he gets busted for planning an insurrection on fucking FACEBOOK?
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Russia doesn't really want Bernie to win. They just want to be seen to be helping Bernie so that they can fracture the Democratic coalition again. If you give in to paranoia and recrimination, they win.
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Going after @PeterHotez is like going after Mr. Rogers. He literally makes free vaccines for poor kids.
Column: After smearing Anthony Fauci, House Republicans proceed to defame a prominent vaccine scientist latimes.com/business/story/2…
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Depp’s lawyer claimed social media played no role in the verdict. One of Depp’s lawyers got kicked off the case for leaking Heard’s private information to social media.
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Door-knocking is a mainstay of journalism. One of the things that separates a pro from a hack is their willingness to wear out some shoe leather.
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So, it’s like the USDA decided to cancel meat inspectors and sell the “Prime” sticker to anyone who wants to pay for it?
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Whether I pack the court depends on whether you steal the Supreme Court seat. Makes total sense.
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To me, "Believe Women" has always meant treating rape allegations as ordinary claims, rather than extraordinary ones. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Ordinary claims do not. Though they still require evidence, if challenged.
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The media have been shitting all over Fetterman, driving expectations of his debate performance as low as possible. But he's not going to get a "surpassed expectations" win for doing an OK job against Oz.
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The campaign event was cancelled because armed Republicans using cars as weapons endangered the lives of Democrats trying to attend a peaceful rally. The president's son instigated it and the president publicly praised it afterwards.
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Defining Judaism a nationality creates a pretext to accuse Jewish Americans of dual loyalties.
President Trump will sign an executive order defining Judaism as a nationality, not just a religion, thus bolstering the Education Department's efforts to stamp out "Boycott Israel" movements on college campuses nyti.ms/2P97cuv
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Gender reveal catastrophes have killed vastly more Americans than trans people in bathrooms.
An explosive prop being built for a gender reveal party accidentally detonated and killed a father-to-be in New York state, authorities say. nbcnews.to/3aLgcAE
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